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Cape Wagtail
Motacilla capensis
-33.1755, 18.1666
Field Notes
Description:
The Cape Wagtail is a slender bird, 19–20 cm in length, with the characteristic longish, constantly wagging tail of its genus. The adult is plain grey-brown above, apart from pale wing edges and a short white supercilium. It has off-white underparts, with a dark grey band across the breast. Young birds are duller and have yellowish underparts. Cape Wagtail has a tsee chee chee call and a trilled whistled song.
Habitat:
The Cape Wagtail is a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which includes the wagtails, pipits and longclaws.
This species breeds in much of Africa from eastern Zaire and Angola across to Kenya and south to the Cape in South Africa.
Notes:
They become quite used to people and pets.
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Cape Wagtail
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PublishedJuly 17, 2011
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